Brett Neely
Brett Neely is an editor with NPR's Washington Desk, where he works closely with NPR Member station reporters on political coverage and edits stories about election security and voting rights.
Before coming to NPR in 2015, Neely was a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio based in Washington, where he covered Congress and the federal government for one of public radio's largest newsrooms. Between 2007 and 2009, he was based in Berlin, where he worked as a freelance reporter for multiple outlets. He got his start in journalism as a producer for the public radio show Marketplace.
Neely graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles. He also has a master's degree in international relations from the University of Chicago. He is a fluent German speaker.
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The friction between some popular travel websites and the airline industry has caused American Airlines to fly off on its own. The result is that someone using Orbitz and Expedia to search for a flight, won't find any fares on those sites from American.
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By some estimates, private-sector employers added nearly 300,000 jobs last month, but it still feels like a bad job market for millions of Americans. Some job seekers are turning to temporary work to fill in the gap. Others are finding positions in the retail, health care and aerospace industries. -
Last summer, more than 200,000 Germans saw Democrat Barack Obama speak in Berlin. They hope that as president, Obama will revitalize a relationship that most Germans hold dear.
